In the wake of Armstrong confession, USA Cycling encourages dopers to come forward
From USA Cycling's perspective, the recent series of confessions by Lance Armstrong and others is an important...
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January 19, 2013
The former chief of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency says a representative of Lance Armstrong's offered the agency a donation in the range of $200,000 to $250,000 in 2004 and the agency immediately rejected it.
Terry Madden, who led USADA from 2000-07, corroborated a story current CEO Travis Tygart told in an interview earlier this month.
In his interview with Oprah Winfrey on Friday...
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January 19, 2013
First shunned, then vilified by Lance Armstrong, Mike Anderson had to move to the other side of the world to get his life back.
Now running a bike shop outside of Wellington, New Zealand, Armstrong's former assistant watched news reports about his former boss confessing to performance-enhancing drug use with only mild interest. If Anderson never hears Armstrong's voice again...
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January 18, 2013
The IOC is urging Lance Armstrong to provide evidence of his drug use to anti-doping bodies in order to ''bring an end to this dark episode.''
The IOC says it ''unreservedly condemns'' the actions of Armstrong, who admitted in an interview with Oprah Winfrey that he had doped throughout his cycling career.
The International Olympic Committee calls...
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January 18, 2013
Admitting he cheated was a start. Now, it's all about whether Lance Armstrong is ready to give details - lots of them - to clean up his sport.
Armstrong's much-awaited confession to Oprah Winfrey made for riveting television, but if the disgraced cyclist wants to take things further, it will involve several long days in meetings with anti-doping officials who have very specific...
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January 19, 2013
Ex-USADA boss rejects Armstrong denial over cash offer (Reuters)
Lance Armstrong is not telling the truth about a six-figure cash donation to the U.S. Anti Doping Agency said the body's former chief...
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January 18, 2013
UCI responds to the Lance Armstrong interview and confession
Pat McQuaid said: “Lance Armstrong’s decision finally to confront his past is an important step forward on the long road
to repairing the...
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January 20, 2013
'Saturday Night Live' spoofs Manti Te'o and Lance Armstrong
stories.
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January 19, 2013
- Here are WWE's dates for their next UK tour in November:
RAW:
November 6: Belfast, Ireland
November 7: Dublin, Ireland
November 8: Brussels, Belgium
November 9: Birmingham, England
November 10: Cardiff, Wales
November 11: Manchester, England TV
November 12: Newcastle, England
November 13: Zurich, Switzerland
November 14: Roeun, France
November 15: Marseille, France
SmackDown...
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January 21, 2013
Last Friday I was on NewsTalk with Bruce DePuyt on News Channel 8 to discuss the Ravens playoffs run, the Washington Nationals offseason moves, the Capitals opening the 2013 season, and the Lance Armstrong controversy. Watch below.
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January 17, 2013
After years of speculation and rumors, and almost a week after news broke that Lance Armstrong was finally he going to confess to doping, he did so in an interview with Oprah Winfrey.
Armstrong, who was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles, admitted that he had cheated for years and fooled so many he had inspired. Part 1 of the two-day interview took place Thursday night...
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January 18, 2013
Time was better spent eating a homemade dinner* and watching the season premiere of Archer and college basketball than watching Lance Armstrong pathologically mouth the right words but show no remorse and engage in an absurd attempt at a semantics lesson. Apparently this interview needed a level-headed lawyer type like Nancy Grace.
It looks like we’re not going to hear from Manti...
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January 18, 2013
Oprah Winfrey's interview with Lance Armstrong is more than an illustration of a hero athlete tumbling from the heights. It's also a pivotal moment for a famous media figure trying to climb the ladder back up.
Winfrey's OWN network is showing signs of life after a rocky start, and the Armstrong interview offered a chance for many more viewers to check it out. The former...
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January 19, 2013
What a wild, strange trip this week has been...Here Lance Armstrong, with a variety of illegal substances coursing through his veins, is desperately trying to catch Manti Te’o’s imaginary girlfriend, or running from Oprah, we aren't sure which... (Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)
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January 20, 2013
Andre Greipel easily outsprinted his rivals Sunday to win the Tour Down Under's 30-mile criterium.
The German sprint star, riding for the Lotto Belisol team, claimed his third win in the criterium, which is raced over 10 laps of a course through parkland near downtown Adelaide. He went on to win the six-stage tour twice previously, in 2008 and 2010, beating a field including...
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January 20, 2013
Listen to the latest Sports Media Watchdogs podcast.
Steve and I tackle the peculiar hoax of Notre Dame LB Manti Te’o and the outrage over Lance Armstrong’s confession. We remember Hall of Famers Stan Musial and Earl Weaver, who passed away this weekend. There is also discussion of the NBA in London and this weekend’s NFL Championship Games.
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